well you have to realize that the cartridges that ship with printers are not regular cartridges from what i have read on the web.
companies give low capacity carts so that the consumer would have to buy a new proper one from the market.
canon has two types of cart available for this model. one is the regular size. the other one is larger. costs more but has more ink. might turn out to be cheaper in the longer run?
i have consumed half of my cartridge. i do not keep track of my printouts. i doubt i have even printed 100 pages. more like around 50-60.
does not concern me much because i usually have to take out prints once a year during tax filing process. other than that it is mostly random photocopies.
and with
HP i used to kill the cartridge first (it dried up) before it emptied. canon cartridge is performing well.
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also... draft printouts in blank ink works out well on this
printer. i almost always tend to print in ink saving mode.
regular model is too dark.
😉 draft mode is still very good.